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Karel Reisz

By (author) Colin Gardner

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Czech-born refugee Karel Reisz (1926-2002) is widely regarded as one of the seminal figures in post-war British cinema. Along with Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson, Reisz was a founder member of the independent Free Cinema â€˜movementâ€™ which attacked the parochial middle-class values of home-grown studio product with a vigorous commitment to everyday working-class subject matter and a poetically-charged film style. This was immediately recognisable in the aesthetic of the international success of Reiszâ€™s first feature, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960). As the import of Free Cinema rapidly dissipated during the â€˜Swinging Londonâ€™ era, Reisz confronted the changing cultural mores of the 1960s and â€˜70s with a series of ambivalent films that critique the anarchic free spirit of the times, including Morgan (1966), Isadora (1968), The Gambler (1974) and Dog Soldiers (1978). Drawing on Reiszâ€™s early film criticism for Sequence and Sight and Sound, as well as interdisciplinary methodologies, this first career-length study explores Reiszâ€™s personal brand of character-based realism, offering the spectator a privileged insight into an artistâ€™s developing response to subjective and historical dislocation. The book should thus prove invaluable to film scholars, cultural historians and the Reisz aficionado. -- .

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